Central Processing Unit (CPU)
Intel Celeron 300 or higher
Peripherals
Network card (10M/100M)
Memory (RAM)
64M or higher
HD Capacity
At least 200 MB
Operating System WINDOWS 98/2000/XP Option
Modem (serial port only)
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Menu
Provides password settings, HD capacity display, estimated recording hours, motion detection, camera parameter settings, recording schedules, short film production, and playback functions. For more information about the operations, please refer to the following sections.
Date/Time
Displays the current time and date.
Monitoring Image
Displays the monitoring image recorded by the camera.
Date/Time Segment Selection
You can select a camera and record date and time for playback in the Playback mode.
Time Segment Display
Displays the current record time segment status (10 minutes per segment.)
Record Button
Orange record indication means that recording is running.
Playback Button
Is used to set up playback speed, pause and stop, and provides saving and printing functions for specified videos.
Exit
Quits the system.
Help
Provides system requirements and operation instructions.
Enter the password in the "New Password" field and enter the same password in the "Confirm" field. Then press the "Apply" button to finish the password setting.
When your press the "Start" button, a screen appears to request your password whenever you select the menu and you must enter your password for function setting. When you select the "Close" button, no screen appears to request your password.
2.2 Capacity Display and Estimated Recording Hours (Memory)
Select the camera you want to operate.
Select the location where you want to save your video data. (To select the archive location, you must turn off the recording function.)
Displays the total capacity of the hard disk where you want to save your video data.
Displays the hard disk space available currently.
Displays the used memory space. When no more hard disk space is available, the new record data will overwrite the earliest recorded data saved in the hard disk so that the recording may continue without interruption.
Displays the estimated hours required for the system to perform recording for each round ( i.e., the estimated hours the saved video data will remain in the HD.) If the ERH is small (e.g., less than two hours) due to the limited available HD capacity, it is recommended that the FPS Settings of the cameras should be set to 1 or 0.
Select the camera you want to operate.
Includes "On" and "Off" modes. In the "On" mode, the screen shows red grids and the recording time segment (Refer to "Time Segment Display" in the main screen.) changes from green to red when the system detects any moving object.
Users can set up a monitoring area by selecting global monitoring or defining a monitoring range.
If your select self-definition, press and hold the left mouse key to drag a green zone as a monitoring region on the monitoring screen of the camera. Then click the "Add" button to add a new definition. You may delete the self-defined zone by clicking the "Delete" button.
Adjust the movement detection sensitivity. The sensitivity declines when you move upwards; it increases when you move downwards.
Finish sensitivity settings by clicking the "Apply" button when you set up the self-defined sensitivity successfully. Press the "Default" button to use the default sensitivity of the system.
Select the camera you want to operate.
Provides two modes for setting up recording frames per second: The normal mode and the event mode. The former is used to set up normal recording frames. The latter is used to setup the recording frames when any moving object is detected (The movement detection switch should be turned on.)
Key in the IP address and the password of the selected camera..
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Is used to adjust camera¡¦s contrast, brightness, color, and saturation.
Is used to adjust recording quality.
Restores the default value of the system.
Apply the attribute and image quality altered by users.
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Specify the tag name for the selected camera.
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Select the camera you want to operate.
The length for each record is one hour.
Select the archive to be deleted from the Archive List and press the "Delete" button to delete the archive.
Convert the archive to a movie file and save in the Mpeg4 format.
Select the date and time segment of the record to be converted.
Each box in the window represents 10 minutes. Add 10 minutes more by pressing "Add" on the left side. Delete 10 minutes more by pressing "Delete" on the left side. The "Add" and "Delete" buttons on the right side have the same functions.
Press the "Start" button and select a file path and name. Start to create "avi" file by pressing the "Confirm" button.
Stop the movie file that is under creation. The movie file that is already created will be reserved.
Time elapsed for the creation of a movie file.
Represents the amount of frames processed.
Indicates the remaining time required to finish the process (Unit: minute.)
Select a day or days from Monday to Sunday to set up recording schedules.
One time segment is one hour, so one day amounts to twenty-four time segments. In the above figure, the red bar indicates the selected time segment for recording. The system will then execute the recording function based on the selected schedule.
Indicates the Email addresses of a receiver. Use ";" to separate each address when multiple receivers are to be entered.
Enter the account and password of the SMTP server.
The SMTP server Email address of the vendor.
Indicates that users can define Email contents.
Sends Email to users when IP is changed.
Sends Email to give users a notice when any event occurs.
Sends Email to give users a notice by pressing this button.
Enter the phone number.
Add the phone number into the calling list.
Delete the phone number from the calling list.
Display the phone calls in the calling list.
Call the phones to users when IP is changed.
Dial the phones to give users a notice when any event occurs.
Dial the phones to give users a notice by pressing this button.
Displays the current IP address of your computer.
Decides whether to start the web page server or not.
Displays the image of each time segment within one hour (10 minutes per time segment.) You can select an image of a specific time segment for playback by clicking the left mouse key.
Return to the monitoring screen by pressing the "Back" button.
Play the archive of the time segment you select.
Stop playing the archive.
Provides 2X, 4X, and 8X speed adjustment. Select different playback speed by pressing the "Fast Forward" button repeatedly.
Suspends playing immediately by pressing the "Pause" button.
Press "Pause" and then "Print" to print the current screen when you playback the archive.
Press "Pause" and then "Save" to save the screen as a JPEG picture when you playback the archive.
Displays the date and time segment for playback or the time segment for the current recording.
Short Film Production
Calls Short Film Production Program based on selected time segment.
Full size playback (default) or fit margin playback.
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4.1 Remote Monitoring Program (Client.exe)
Main Screen:
Enter Server IP address.
Enter the specified IP address and press "Connect" to receive the remote screen data. Press "Disconnect" to abort the connection to the remote device.
Record the remote image in the hardware of the local machine.
Select Local Video File to playback the archive you select.
Playback:
Stops the playback.
Playbacks archives.
Increases playback speed.
When the Pause function is working, the zooming function is enabled. For more information about the zooming, refer to the next section.
Playbacks the archive of the last time segment.
Playbacks the archive of the next time segment.
Local Zooming:
Step 1: Enter the IP address or domain name and press "Enter" to connect to the server.
Step 2: Select the item of ActiveX (the default) or Java, and select the camera you want to view.
Note: If the item of Java is selected and nothing can be viewed, press the hyperlink shown below to install the package of JVM (Java Virtual Machine). ActiveX provides an additional function of snapshot by clicking the mouse button on the view port of a camera.
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